Best Landscape Hand Tools
The Best Landscape Hand Tools are our picks for the tools needed to weed, plant, and cultivate. Our Best Landscape Hand Tools are great for bed maintenance, annual plantings, and fluffing up mulch or compost.
Our pick of the best tool in 3 different categories:
- Best General Purpose Hand Tool
- Best Garden Knife
- Best Hand Rake/Hand Cultivator
Best General Purpose Garden Hand Tool
The Flexrake Flower and Vegetable Planter/Weeder
This tool is an indispensable part of my garden tool collection. I use it weekly in season. It is a great, highly versatile garden hand tool that excels at multiple tasks including:
- Weeding- pointed end will typically remove weeds from the soil in one shot. The best weeding tool we have ever owned
- Planting - rounded end easily plants annual flowering plants, smaller perennials, pachysandra, any etc..
- Digging - if you loosen soil with the pointed end and then dig with the rounded end it is a surprisingly good digging tool - great for light trenching, creating vegetable garden furrows,
- Moving Mulch - a goof close quarters tool for fine adjustments in mulch or compost - like pushing piles around shrub bases or pulling back mulch prior to transplanting.
Specifications
- Durable carbon steel blades
- Heat treated for strength
- Oak handles - hand turned
- Nostalgic craftsmanship
- Non-slip grip
- Hand finished
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Why We Like This Weeding and Planting Hand Tool So Much.
We love it because we use it constantly. It has uses in every gardening season. An indispensable tool for:
- Spring clean-up - removes weeds, last years flowering plants, dead leaves and undergrowth, freshens up mulch
- Planting - pin point seed planting can be done with the pointed end. Both ends at work easily make great planting holes for annual flowering plants. We dig holes for plants up to 1 gallon in size in our terrible rocky soil.
- Weeding - with one experienced blow uproots weeds. The pointed end can get tough deep roots like crabgrass. The circular end can take last years annuals out in one blow. The best weeder we have ever used
- Well made. Carbon steel head has never bent or threatened to - even during some tough prying.
- Oak handle is rock solid. I have never felt like I was going to crack it.
- A great garden gift. Becomes an indispensable tool for the garden.
Best Garden Knife
Hori Hori Garden Knife
With a Diamond Sharpening Rod, Thick Leather Sheath and Extra Sharp Blade beautifully packaged in a Gift Box.
First of all Hori Hori means To Dig To Dig in Japanese and that says a lot about how strong and versatile this garden knife is.
This is a great tool for severing roots in the soil, and for planting, weeding and light sawing.
- Root Saw - one edge of the blade is serrated allowing you to cleanly cut roots. A great tool for removing last years plants from containers or planting beds.
- Planting Tool - ideal for planting shallow bulbs or seasonal plants. Digs through anything.
- Sawing - not good for removing woody stems but great for cutting off thicker soft stem plants (herbaceous perennials). Not an ideal sawing tool but it's there in a pinch.
- Weeding - a great weeder. The pointed blade will go through anything and get down to the roots, easily pries all but the toughest weeds out of the ground.
- Saving Soil - As an avid container gardener I often uproot last years plants and want to separate roots from soil to preserve the soil. This Tori Tori Garden Knife is ideal for that task.
- Other Uses - a multi-purpose tool that is great for hunting, camping, metal detecting, fishing and more.
Why We Like This Garden Knife So Much.
This Hori Hori Garden Knife version is the highest quality knife we have tested in the Hori Hori knife universe. We like it best for these reasons:
- We love the wood handle which sandwiches the single metal blade running through it - it is extremely durable.
- Does it's job well. Cut roots cleanly and efficiently. An invaluable tool for removing last season's container plants, bedding plants.
- A great weeder - goes through anything, literally flicks the weeds out of the ground
- A great gift. We received our first Hori Hori Garden Knife as a Christmas gift and it has become an indispensable part of our garden tool collection.
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Best Hand Rake/Hand Cultivator
Aluminum Hand Cultivator
- The Radius Garden 10301 Ergonomic Aluminum Hand Cultivator
- Award-winning ergonomic garden cultivator with talon-like tines are perfect for turning soil and uprooting weed seedlings
- Ultra-lightweight die-cast aluminum blade; Sharp and stronger than steel and will never rust
- Ergonomic Natural Radius Grip provides extra leverage and reduces hand and wrist stress
- Over molded handle with a comfortable non-latex, thermoplastic grip for comfort and ease of use
- Ideal for gardeners with limited hand strength, arthritis, or carpal tunnel syndrome
Specifications
- Die-cast lightweight Aluminum
- Ergonomic handle with thermoplastic grip
- 13.4 x 3.3 x 4.2 inches
- 10.1 Ounces
Why We Like This Aluminum Hand Cultivator So Much.
- We use hand cultivators to fluff up old mulch and for light weeding in early spring. This well built hand cultivator does the mulch fluffing better than other cultivators we've tried.
- Tines are not sharp so they don't dig in to our weed fabric underneath the mulch.
- Ergonomic handle allows us to scratch mulch and soil while standing up (bent over but still standing up - we are not on our knees).
- A well built tool from a great company that is committed to quality, innovative products.
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Best Gas Powered Hedge Trimmer
Why Introduce Power Equipment To This Page?
It is simple - I need a gas powered hedge trimmer when I cut down my ornamental grasses in the spring of each year. I have tried cutting them down with other hand powered hedge trimmers, pruning shears, etc and nothing works. I have dozens of ornamental grasses - many are thick stemmed and no hand tool makes the job manageable. Of the powered hedge trimmer options I feel RedMax makes the best gas powered trimmer.
Redmax CHT220L 24" Gas Powered Hedge Trimmer
- The CHT220L is a high quality homeowner hedge trimmer designed for demanding conditions.
- The double sided 24" cutter bar provides the operator with the reach and efficency to get the job done quickly and precisely.
- An adjustable, three position rear handle can quickly be put into the position best suited for the task at hand.
- To reduce the likelihood of leg injury, a safety bar comes standard.
- Cylinder displacement : 21.7 cc Power output : 0.8 hp Weight (excl. cutting equipment) : 9.9 lbs